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Filmmaker's Four-Hour Soundscape Album Captures Nature's Urgency

5/1/2025

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Filmmaker Joshua Bonnetta has crafted a mesmerizing four-hour album, The Pines, using 8,760 hours of recordings from a single tree in upstate New York. This ambitious project resonates with the urgent dialogue on climate change, intertwining the beauty of nature's sounds with personal reflections and scientific understanding, as he ventures into new natural soundscapes across Europe.

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Filmmaker Joshua Bonnetta has crafted a mesmerizing four-hour album, The Pines, using 8,760 hours of recordings from a single tree in upstate New York. This ambitious project resonates with the urgent dialogue on climate change, intertwining the beauty of nature's sounds with personal reflections and scientific understanding, as he ventures into new natural soundscapes across Europe.